Bill Text: TX HB3332 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to revocation of do-not-resuscitate orders for patients admitted to a health care facility or hospital.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Public Health [HB3332 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3332-Introduced.html
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By: Frank | H.B. No. 3332 |
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relating to revocation of do-not-resuscitate orders for patients | ||
admitted to a health care facility or hospital. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 166.205(a), (b), and (c), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A physician providing direct care to a patient for whom | ||
a DNR order is issued shall revoke the patient's DNR order if: | ||
(1) the advance directive on which the DNR order is | ||
based is revoked in accordance with this chapter; or | ||
(2) the patient or the individual whose direction or | ||
treatment decision was the basis for issuing the DNR order[ |
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the patient a revocation of consent to or intent to revoke a DNR | ||
order issued under Section 166.203(a). | ||
(b) A person providing direct care to a patient under the | ||
supervision of a physician shall notify the physician of: | ||
(1) the revocation of the advance directive described | ||
by Subsection (a)(1); or | ||
(2) the request to revoke a DNR order under Subsection | ||
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at any time revoke the DNR order. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |